PM Modi at Coimbatore Today

Prime Minister Modi one day trip to Coimbatore today inaugurates Employee State Insurance Corporation Medical College and attends the public meeting. Tight security is provided with the help of police personnel. They were in duty from last night at the road sides. Hundreds of police were deployed while constructing the stage. He had tweeted about his visit to Coimbatore earlier.

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Will visit Kerala & Tamil Nadu today. Shall begin the tour by joining the Third Global Ayurveda Festival in Kozhikode.

Before coming to Coimbatore Prime Minister visited Kerala and joined in Third Global Ayurveda Festival in Kozhikode. Today at 4 pm Prime Minister inaugurated ESI hospital building and moved to Codissia to deliver his speech. He started his speech with 'Vanakkam' and stated about the benefits of ESI (Employee State Insurance). This scheme is based on the Gandhiyan principle 'contributions as per their ability and benefits as per the requirement', says Modi.

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He further added about the history of the ESI. 'ESI had been first started at 1952 with 2 centers at Kanpur and Delhi and now it has been developed vastly to 830 centers in 34 states and Union Territories,' stated by Modi.

State BJP leaders addressed the meeting that charged against the present AIADMK and DMK parties.

Meanwhile, some political parties planned to show black flag against Modi as protest against the Dalit Rohit Vermulla issue. Nearly 180 persons were arrested who tried to show black flag on the rally including 18 women this afternoon.

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Modi handed over ESI Medical College to the state government and hope the state will quickly start the college. Moreover he said 20 seats will be allocated for the children of ESI staffs. He had also talked about the bonus of the employees at ESI. At 5 pm Modi concluded his speech.